retread

Meanings

Verb

• To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.
• To renew the tread of a tyre, providing a cheap, and possibly dangerous, product.
• to tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.

Noun

• A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.
• a person who re-entered military service in World War Two after serving in World War One.
• A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.

Related

Similar words

• recap

Origin

• re- + tread
• re- + tread